I remember one time that I was quite depressed, I watched this video from ¨TED-talks¨. For the ones who still don´t know ¨TED-talks¨ is a site in which you can watch conferences and lectures about almost everything. It guests the most prestigious speakers known to mankind. From whiz-kids to very experienced people. This particular time was the turn of Nick Vujicic to speak, a world wide known Serbian-Australian performer.

He inspired me that day mainly because of one of the things he said in his speech. Life hadn´t been easy for  him growing up due to his disability. The fact of being looked with disdain by bullies in school was one of those setbacks. Nevertheless, this strong-willed man has blown away more than one person. Not only because of his courage but for his desire to live and help out others.

During his speech he mentioned he had attempted to commit suicide at the age of 10 by drowning himself in his bathtub.

However he realized while doing this it was not worth it. He thought about how much pain his parents would have gone through if he had killed himself that day. It made me cry to hear what he was saying at that moment. Everyone experiences blips once in while. However, I myself would  have not plucked up enough courage to keep going If I had been in his situation. It is indeed admirable and heroic what this man has done. Regardless of all he has undergone, he even managed to get a Bachelor´s degree in Accounting and marry a wonderful woman. He´s controverted the former belief that you need to be 100% physically healthy to succeed in life. A lot of hale and hearty people haven´t even achieved half of what he has. He also gives motivational talks around the world and has written several novels such as ¨Life without Limbs¨.

Not to mention his appearance in the short film ¨The Butterfly Circus¨ in which he was the protagonist. Lastly, I´d say that we all have a thing or two to learn from this wonderful human being. If he never threw in the towel, why would you?